High-Availability Microservices Platform

Client: StreamCore Media Industry: Media / Streaming Duration: 3 months
KubernetesTerraformGoPrometheusGrafanaArgoCD

The Challenge

StreamCore Media was running their video processing and content delivery platform on a fleet of manually provisioned EC2 instances. Deployments required SSH access and a 45-minute checklist. A single bad deploy in Q3 caused four hours of downtime, costing the company an estimated $120,000 in lost ad revenue and damaging trust with their broadcasting partners.

They needed a modern infrastructure platform that could handle 1M+ daily API requests, scale automatically during live event spikes, and deploy new code without any service interruption.

Our Approach

We designed a Kubernetes-native architecture on AWS EKS, fully provisioned through Terraform modules that codified every piece of infrastructure from VPC networking to IAM roles. The migration was executed service-by-service over six weeks, with each microservice containerized, health-checked, and deployed through ArgoCD’s GitOps workflow.

For observability, we deployed a Prometheus and Grafana stack with custom dashboards tracking request latency percentiles, pod resource utilization, and deployment frequency. Alert rules were configured to page on-call engineers for SLO breaches before customers noticed degradation.

Rolling deployments with configurable readiness probes ensured zero-downtime releases. We also implemented horizontal pod autoscaling tied to custom metrics, allowing the platform to absorb 5x traffic spikes during live events without manual intervention.

Results

  • Zero downtime deployments since platform launch (previously 4h+ incidents per quarter)
  • 35% reduction in monthly cloud infrastructure costs through right-sizing and autoscaling
  • < 2 minute average deployment time (down from 45 minutes)
  • 99.99% uptime SLA achieved over the first production quarter
  • 5x traffic spikes handled automatically during live broadcast events